fix issue 58: JavaBeanDumper.dump throws NullPointerException on list property with null element
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index fa40cdf..67e19e1 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
 	</properties>

 	<body>

 		<release version="1.7" date="in Mercurial" description="development">

-	        <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="56" due-to="DZeiss">

+	        <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="58" due-to="jeff.caulfield">

+                JavaBeanDumper.dump throws NullPointerException on list property 

+                with null element (2010-03-23)

+            </action>

+            <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="56" due-to="DZeiss">

                 Make constructors in SafeConstructor public (2010-03-16)

             </action>

             <action dev="obastard" type="fix" issue="53" due-to="obastard">

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/Representer.java b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/Representer.java
index 6147838..689eb11 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/Representer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/Representer.java
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@
                 Iterator<Object> iter = memberList.iterator();
                 for (Node childNode : snode.getValue()) {
                     Object member = iter.next();
-                    if (t.equals(member.getClass()) && childNode.getNodeId() == NodeId.mapping) {
+                    if (member != null && t.equals(member.getClass())
+                            && childNode.getNodeId() == NodeId.mapping) {
                         childNode.setTag(Tag.MAP);
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue58/NullValueDumperTest.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue58/NullValueDumperTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3af1c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue58/NullValueDumperTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Andrey Somov
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue58;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.JavaBeanDumper;
+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml;
+
+public class NullValueDumperTest extends TestCase {
+
+    public static class Foo {
+        private ArrayList<Object> bar = new ArrayList<Object>();
+
+        public ArrayList<Object> getBar() {
+            return bar;
+        }
+
+        public void setBar(ArrayList<Object> bar) {
+            this.bar = bar;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testListElement() {
+        final Foo foo = new Foo();
+        foo.bar.add(1);
+        foo.bar.add("A");
+        foo.bar.add(3.14);
+
+        assertEquals("bar:\n- 1\n- A\n- 3.14\n", new JavaBeanDumper().dump(foo));
+    }
+
+    public void testNullListElement() {
+        final Foo foo = new Foo();
+
+        foo.bar.add(1);
+        foo.bar.add("A");
+        foo.bar.add(null);
+        foo.bar.add(3.14);
+        assertEquals("bar:\n- 1\n- A\n- null\n- 3.14\n", new JavaBeanDumper().dump(foo));
+        assertEquals(
+                "!!org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue58.NullValueDumperTest$Foo\nbar: [1, A, null, 3.14]\n",
+                new Yaml().dump(foo));
+    }
+}